Metro gives 100-year-old woman free rides for year

Gift part of 40th anniversary celebration

Metro is celebrating four decades of service by giving free rides to a woman who used to ride the original Cincinnati mass transit system.

Metro said employee Sue Limke was filing paperwork for riders in the Fare Deal program when an upcoming birthday caught her eye, noting that rider Anna Tolliver would be 100 years old on April 11.

To celebrate this impressive milestone, Metro employees invited Tolliver to its offices to give her a year's worth of free rides on Metro buses.

Tolliver, a St. Bernard resident, rides Metro about three times a week for shopping and doctor appointments. She commuted downtown on Metro daily for 35 years before she retired from her job at the Town Club of Cincinnati in the Carew Tower.

She also rode the original Cincinnati streetcar line in the 1920s, Metro said.

The year of free rides is a special award given to Metro riders as part of Metro’s 40th Anniversary Story Contest. Additional prize winners will be named this summer.

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